V8 3.17.6 (revision 13788)

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It was written using C++ and implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262, 5th edition.

V8 can be used by developers to simply compile and run JS code.

As an extra, it will also manage dynamic memory allocation for objects.

To ease development, V8 can easily be made to run as a standalone, or embedded with any C++ application.

Here are some key features of "V8":

Supported platforms:
· Windows (XP or newer)
· Mac OS X (10.5 or newer)
· Linux systems that use IA-32, x64, or ARM processors

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fixed materialization of arguments objects with unknown values.
· Set default number of sweeper threads to at most four.
· Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

Via: V8 3.17.6 (revision 13788)